I find there to be errors in thinking in the patient’s thinking…his hatred for his father was not a defense against his homosexual feelings, it was a block to developing his masculinity. As most of us now know, it is not unhealthy for men to express their emotions and show love for the father and other males in their lives. I recall the scene in Death in Love when the older brother is embraced by his male friend which seemed odd and foreign to him. He was trying to be a man, was rejected by women and had no true role model. He was really acting out dramas belonging to his parents and were not truly fantasies he created in his mind. In the film Tideland, Jeliza Rose, a young child whose parents were addicted to heroin, acted out her psychodrama with her Barbie like dolls. Her psychosis grew worse after the death of both her parents and was left to fend for herself in al old farm house but encountered two strange characters…
